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Trends in developing country trade 1980-2010
Michalopoulos, Constantine; Ng, Francis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
This paper reviews trends and patterns in developing countries'trade from 1980 to 2010. During the 30-year span, world trade expanded rapidly, especially in developing countries in the last decade. A similar picture emerges in trade in services. These overall trends, however, mask different...
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Financial development and international trade : is there a link?
Beck, Thorsten - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
The author explores a possible link between financial development and trade in manufactures. His theoretical model focuses on the role of financial intermediaries in facilitating large-scale, high-return projects. Results show that economies with better developed financial sectors have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005133690
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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Katayama, Roy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household … quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey). The … analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005129170
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Aid is good for the poor
Hirano, Yumeka; Otsubo, Shigeru - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...
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Should income inequality be reduced and who should benefit ? redistributive preferences in Europe and Central Asia
Cojocaru, Alexandru; Diagne, Mame Fatou - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper examines support for reducing inequality and for income redistribution to specific groups in Europe and … of support for reducing inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960249
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Measuring inequality from top to bottom
Bazan, Diaz; Valeria, Tania - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper presents a new methodology to measure inequality that optimally combines household survey information and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252713
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Is there persistence in the growth of manufactured exports? Evidence from newly industrializing countries
Mody, Ashoka; Yilmaz, Kamil; DEC - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1994
Price and income elasticities estimated from a country's export demand function are used both to predict and to prescribe effective export strategies. But the focus on elasticities has led to the neglect of an important empirical regularity: a strong persistencein the growth rate of a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079483
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Inequality, the price of nontradables, and the real exchange rate : theory and cross-country evidence
Min, Hong-Ghi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002
The author provides theoretical and empirical evidence of a negative association between income inequality and real … exchange rates. First, he builds a theoretical model showing the transmission mechanism from inequality to real exchange rates … negative relationship between inequality and real exchange rates does not imply that policies aimed at dramatic redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079501
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The effects of infrastructure development on growth and income distribution
Calderon, Cesar; Serven, Luis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
involves the estimation of simple equations for GDP growth and conventional inequality measures, augmented to include, among … infrastructure assets, and (2) income inequality declines with higher infrastructure quantity and quality. A variety of specification … quality on growth and inequality. These two results combined suggest that infrastructure development can be highly effective …
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Do more unequal countries redistribute more? does the median voter hypothesis hold?
Milanovic, Branko - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999
The median voter hypothesis is important to endogenous growth theories because it provides the political mechanisms through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by blunting incentives, reduce the country's growth rate. But...
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